Support Thread - M.A.R.S. - A Ridiculous Shooter

Post any problems you are having with the game here so the community can try and help resolve your problem.

It won't lauch on my Arch Linux 64 box.

Is there a log somwhere where I can gather debugging information?

Edited by: dai1313

When you launch from a terminal what errors do you get?

Yea, It seems like I was just missing libGLEW 1.5.

GLEW 1.7.0-1 from the repos did not satisfy this so I got 1.5.8-1 from the AUR.

All systems are go.

I have added that now to the libs that will be installed and tested again for the game.

Can't run the game after upgrade from Fedora 15 to 16 because of missing libGLEW 1.5.
Fedora 16 repos provide libGLEW 1.6.

Hey, devs, how about a static build? Extra disk space is lesser evil than dependencies troubles, imo.

I have added support for GLEW 1.5 so everything should be fine now when you install it.

Thank you for the fast response!
Unfortunately, I still can not run the game

$ ./desura_launch_Play.sh 
./marsshooter64: symbol lookup error: ./lib64/libsfml-graphics.so.2: undefined symbol: __glewUniform1fARB

I have sent a message off to the dev to see about getting a version compiled against sfml 1.6 rather that the new/unstable branch 2.0

Hey there,

This is indeed a strange bug. I was able to reproduce it but I have no idea why M.A.R.S. won't start. The good news: The game should run when you launch M.A.R.S. directly with the script called "M.A.R.S.". Therefore the mistake is made in the way the desura script sets up the LD_LIBRARY_PATH or something like that.

Hope you will be able to play the game with that "fix"!

Best regards,
MarsCoreTeam

PS: It would be great if desura shows off uninstalled dependencies inside the launcher (not only in the terminal)!

MarsCoreTeam wrote: The good news: The game should run when you launch M.A.R.S. directly with the script called "M.A.R.S.".

No. When I launch the script called "M.A.R.S." directly, I get

error while loading shared libraries: libGLEW.so.1.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directoryerror while loading shared libraries: libGLEW.so.1.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

MarsCoreTeam wrote: Therefore the mistake is made in the way the desura script sets up the LD_LIBRARY_PATH or something like that.

Desura script just adds a path to some libraries like libGLEW 1.5 to LD_LIBRARY_PATH.

One more note from me. As I figured out from desura script, libGLEW 1.5 is located in ~/desura/.settings/games/14075/914/lib/libGLEW.so.1.5. Then, I tried this:

nm -D ~/desura/.settings/games/14075/914/lib/libGLEW.so.1.5 | fgrep "glewUniform"

And I got nothing. This means, MARS's libGLEW has no "__glewUniform1fARB" symbol.

Edited by: npic

Btw, there are also native packages for Fedora: Build.opensuse.org

The system will only download the needed libraries when your system doesn't have them installed. If there is a better one for your distribution then install that and reinstall the game and you should be fine.

Problem is that my distribution ships newer version of the glew library, but the glew library, that downloads desura, is in fact unusable!
2MarsCoreTeam
I even can build the game from the source and everything, but what about less experienced users? They (so do I) expect "click and play" behaviour from desura and from the game. We really should fix this strange bug with libraries.

Temporary workaround:

cd ~/desura/common/mars-a-ridiculous-shooter/lib64
ln -s /usr/lib64/libGLEW.so.1.6 ./libGLEW.so.1.5

It's not a safe and 100% solution, though.

Edited by: npic

Here is what I get on my admittedly quite old linux box:

./marsshooter64: error while loading shared libraries: libopenal.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

It only has libopenal.so.0 installed. I don't need help to get it running, just wanted to let you know. Would be nice if it could run without sound instead of failing though.

I have updated the game so it now should download libopenal.so.1 if you do not have it on your system.